____/ RonB on Monday 11 February 2008 04:01 : \____
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:12:20 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
>>
>>> You missed the best part:
>>>
>>> "It may be a coincidence that the amount of market cap that has vanished
>>> is almost exactly the same as the bid amount (the two numbers converge as
>>> stockholders flee Microsoft). But coincidence or not, Microsoft has
>>> shrunk by a Yahoo in the last eight days."
>>
>> Seems more to me that Microsoft investors sold their stock to buy Yahoo
>> stock, expecting it to be converted back to Microsoft stock at a profit.
>
> Still the same result. "Microsoft has shrunk by a Yahoo."
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